Anthropology and Political Economy: Theoretical and Asian Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
The Concept of Political Economy: Political Economy and Anthropological Economics....Pages 7-12
Anthropological Theory and Development Studies: Some Critical Reflections....Pages 13-24
Concepts and Objects in Economic Anthropology....Pages 25-46
Economic Anthropology and the Problems of Development....Pages 47-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Marxism and Anthropology: Reflections and Questions....Pages 73-85
Engels’s Anthropology Revisited....Pages 86-99
Power, Descent and Reproduction: A Critique of the Concept of the ‘Lineage Mode of Production’ in Chinese Society....Pages 100-122
China and the ‘Asiatic Mode of Production’: An Inquiry....Pages 123-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Inequality and the Peasant Mode of Production: Theories of Production, Distribution and Ideology....Pages 135-151
The Anthropological Analysis of Peripheral Capitalism....Pages 152-166
Development Anthropology and the Study of Poverty: A Note....Pages 167-170
Back Matter....Pages 171-172